Pakistan Refutes ISIS Claim Of Nuclear Expansion
While their is no official word against ISIS claim that Pakistan is expanding its nuclear arsenal, The News has a report quoting “official sources” that the Baghalchur Uranium Mine, also known as BC-1, which used to produce yellowcake, was officially closed down by the Pakistani Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) on November 30, 1999.
These sources say that the uranium deposits at the Baghalchur site, which had a capacity of 25 MT of uranium per year, had exhausted in 1999 and thus the question of doubling the size of the Baghalchur compound simply does not arise. Instead, the Nuclear Track Detection Laboratory of Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (PINSTECH) is now trying to explore some other sites in the Nangar Aani, Khura Murghanzai and Pitoksori Gorakh areas of Dera Ghazi Khan.
Due to unavailability of direct official word on authenticity of satellite imagery presented by ISIS, which clearly shows development of new infrastructure between October 11, 2004 and August 25, 2008, it is difficult to ascertain whether or not the site was closed down in 1999.
Even if government’s claim of closure of Baghalchur site is accepted, it is a fact that this region of Dera Ghazi Khan is used as nuclear dumping facility, causing radioactivity hazards to public health, as observed three yeas ago.
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